Comments on: What Would Michael Porter Say – Be the Best or Be Unique? https://www.mindtools.com/blog/what-would-michael-porter-say-be-the-best-or-be-unique/ Mind Tools Mon, 27 Nov 2023 16:29:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.1 By: Midgie Thompson https://www.mindtools.com/blog/what-would-michael-porter-say-be-the-best-or-be-unique/#comment-3707 Tue, 26 Jan 2021 07:21:55 +0000 https://www.mindtools.com/blog/?p=24586#comment-3707 In reply to Cherie Johnston.

Thanks Cherie for sharing your thoughts. I agree that when we work hard, we can achieve great things. For me, there is a difference between working hard because one is self-motivated to be the best version of themselves versus working hard to be better than the next person and doing things that put the other person down. We all have different views of what the best version of ourselves is and that should be all that matters.

]]> By: Cherie Johnston https://www.mindtools.com/blog/what-would-michael-porter-say-be-the-best-or-be-unique/#comment-3706 Mon, 25 Jan 2021 21:08:27 +0000 https://www.mindtools.com/blog/?p=24586#comment-3706 I do not agree with this article. If you work hard in school and work to be the best, you can achieve life long results. I never pushed my children in school, I did not have to, they were self-motivated and enjoyed academics. By being the best in academics, they got into their dream colleges, and soared through multiple college degrees. My son is employed today as a rocket scientist and my daughter an Oncology Registered Nurse. Being mediocre is not a strategy. Being unique is not the same thing as being true to your self. If someone is not the best at everything that is okay, but to dismiss striving to be a better person each day than you were yesterday as if that is a fault and we should just accept our limitations.

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